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Posted: Wednesday, 12 December 2012 7:23AM

Man Arrested After Another Dangerous Police Chance



KGMI News Reporting
Dillon Honcoop

kgmi@kgmi.com

WHATCOM, Wash. -- A wanted man with a history of leading police on dangerous chases was at the center of an armed standoff in southern Whatcom County yesterday evening.

Sheriff Bill Elfo says Adrian Sassen Van Elsloo was wanted on drug charges.

He says Bellingham police tried to arrest him in Skagit County when a chase began.



Elfo says Sassen Van Elsloo was armed, and refused to surrender when the standoff began on Nulle Road just east of Interstate 5 near the Skagit County line.

Officers eventually forced him from the vehicle with a non-lethal device and he was arrested on numerous warrants and charges stemming from the chase.

The 30-year-old Sassen Van Elsloo was the focus of the police chase in 2001 that killed Whatcom County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Herzog.

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